Sanitation Worker Edward Lapre was driving five civilian DSNY workers to a breakfast event for an American Cancer Society breast-cancer-awareness program Aug. 20 when he had a heart attack on Sixth Ave. near 34th St.
“He wasn’t coherent,” Sheri Marquez, one of his five female passengers, said in a speakerphone interview the next day from DSNY headquarters. “His eyes rolled in the back of his head. He was drooling and I couldn’t find a pulse.”
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